Sentences with phrase «district cut staff»

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A teacher I know told me this morning that Colorado school districts are quietly cutting staff across all districts.

During a public hearing on the issue, district officials explained the staff cut was based in part on the current number of students registered for school next year.

For years, the district balanced its budget through staff cuts and increases in non-tax revenue, cutting district employees to 3,405 in 2001 from 4,938 in 1993, Parks Gen. Supt. David Doig said.

«I didn't think I was going to have to do things on this scale,» says Claypool, who oversees a Park District budget of $ 313 million and a staff that - after the latest round of cuts - numbers 3,500 full - time and 3,000 seasonal workers.

Lawmakers passed a controversial bill on Monday that takes aim at the Gary School Board — cutting its meetings and allowing the district to make mid-year staff layoffs in a rare one - day special session.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

For districts that get most of their funding from the state, it will mean, he said, some school officials will have to cut programs or staff because they will be forced to plan conservatively in what they might get from Albany if a state budget goes unresolved until May 31.

Donohue said instead of cutting resources to teachers and support staff who keep schools running, the state would be better off eliminating the financial perks school districts have been lavishing on law firms they hire to represent them against their workers.

The Buffalo Public School District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their buildings.

Hundreds of Yonkers education advocates said at the Capitol today that the district needs an additional $ 26 million from the state to avoid a Board of Education plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staff members.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

The Buffalo Board of Education has decided to cut its meeting schedule in half, a move aimed at allowing staff members more time to focus on academic programs and district operations.

In testimony last week before the House Armed Services Committee, Army Secretary John McHugh — who represented Stefanik's district in Congress between 1993 and 2009 — and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno warned that drastic funding cuts could harm the Army's ability to meet its most basic combat goals.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller Thursday as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

In recent years, the city's school district has made several decisions to help close budget gaps, including cutting about 200 staff positions.

Our Congresswoman, Claudia Tenney opened her Binghamton District Office this morning with a ribbon cutting and staff introductions.

District staff in its four - year plan outlined several possibilities, although officials also said it's likely the district will find alternatives to cutting classroom pDistrict staff in its four - year plan outlined several possibilities, although officials also said it's likely the district will find alternatives to cutting classroom pdistrict will find alternatives to cutting classroom programs.

Some school districts have cut phys - ed teachers from some school staffs.

Instead of cutting staff, however, the district is trying to hold on to more students by expanding its popular magnet - school programs, adding thousands of new seats for 2016 — 17.

But budget cuts last year left the 11,000 - student Waterloo district without a grant writer, leaving staff members to dot all the i's and cross all the t's.

Spending restrictions and a depressed economy have forced Massachusetts» school districts to cut academic programs, staff sizes, and transportation services and to institute fees for extracurricular activities, according to a survey conducted by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.

Districts are investing most extra funding now to replenish teaching ranks cut during recent hard times and add strategic staff, without controversy.

Forced to cut staff because of funding cuts, districts had no option but to raise student - teacher ratios even though the Education Code limits the ratio to 30:1 or less from kindergarten through eighth grade.

In order to bridge this gap, the district reduced staff by cutting 15 teaching positions by qualification instead of seniority.

Overall, the cuts to staff would save the district about $ 9.2 million and 72 percent of the positions would come from staffing based at schools.

Without cuts, the district was expecting to employ 4,162 staff for the 2015 - 16 school year.

A number of Baltimore schools were forced to eliminate staff this week following midyear budget cuts.Nearly 130 staff members were left looking for job placements after the city school district imposed budget cuts because student enrollments turned out to...

The preliminary decision addresses a ground - breaking court challenge to layoffs that devastated the staffs of three middle schools during job cuts over the last few years in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

She quoted a recent survey that found 18 percent of districts cut reading specialists and 25 percent cut library staff this year.

One district deeply riven by the impact of efforts to dismantle public education is the Spooner Area School District in northwest Wisconsin, where parents, teachers and students have been up in arms over staff cuts, increasing class sizes and other indidistrict deeply riven by the impact of efforts to dismantle public education is the Spooner Area School District in northwest Wisconsin, where parents, teachers and students have been up in arms over staff cuts, increasing class sizes and other indiDistrict in northwest Wisconsin, where parents, teachers and students have been up in arms over staff cuts, increasing class sizes and other indignities.

In December, the MMSD administration forwarded a consulting contract with District Management Group (DMG), which has a reputation for cost - cutting measures to reduce special education staff and segregate students with more significant disabilities.

The threaten - test - an - punish movement perpetrated by the Gates, Coleman, and Duncan cartel also came on the heels of the Great Recession which had already forced many districts to defund programs and cut staff.

«And then when you see central office staff being cut year after year, then that makes our pooling of resources to help school districts without the proper staff increasingly important.»

Madison's public schools will need to get by with about 50 fewer staff members next year due to enrollment declines and budget cuts, according to the district's latest projections.

Teacher layoffs are not expected because the district's annual staff attrition rate is higher than the anticipated cuts.

Districts have been cutting programs and staff for several years despite annual increases in funding because of the increasing cost of things such as salaries, fuel and health insurance premiums.

Since each district has suffered huge cuts during the last two years, many are functioning on a very lean staff and money for materials has been severely reduced.

• School closures, employee cuts, selling land debated by near bankrupt Inglewood Unified: School district staff are recommending the school board cut $ 14 million from their budget.

Already saddled with a major reorganization, significant budget cuts and staff reductions, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing now also faces a sudden uptick in workload generated by districts scouring cases of unreported misconduct.

You will want to ask to meet with them at their district office, unless the Harrisburg office would be more convenient for any reason The staff person or scheduler will ask you what you'd like to discuss; just give them a clear, succinct answer such as «education cuts», «school vouchers» or anything else you wish to talk about.

For the past 5 years, his revenues have plummeted 40 percent and a third of district staff has been cut.

The date, which falls on a Friday this year, is the preliminary deadline for school districts to send out «Reduction In Force» notices for cuts to next year's staff.

In addition to school closures, the district faces major staff cuts.

On December 13, as OUSD's Board votes on extremely painful midyear budget cuts, staff will also share their plan to strengthen the district's fiscal management: The FCMAT Action Plan.

The details were daunting: the budget deficit was projected to reach nearly half a billion dollars in three years; a district audit showed LA Unified debt outstripped assets by $ 4.2 billion; unfunded pensions topped $ 13 billion and have more than doubled since 2005; per - pupil funding had doubled but the district still faces financial crisis; and plans for a turnaround included boosting enrollment but not cutting staff.

Owing to budget shortfalls, the district is cutting guidance counselors, intervention specialists, and other critical staff, art, sports, enrichment, SAT prep, textbooks, summer school, tutors and more.

Israel Rios, Jubilee's principal, said the network could be of greater use now than ever before to small schools such as his and larger districts because even with budget cuts and staff reductions, students still have to complete required courses.

No school board or administration enjoys cutting staff, but the grim reality today is that, with scarce resources, many districts must downsize their operations.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

An additional $ 10 million to $ 15 million will also go to 129 schools that were identified as having sharp enrollment declines to protect against staff or program cuts, the district said.